The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1887-03-12

SUGGESTIONS TO PARENTS ON THE
TRAINING OF CHILL Rem.

Parents untaniiirr with The D"ings OF
Their ChiIdren-The E>rI Attending the
Young on The streets al NiGht--A Child
Liberty After Dark Leads to sure De
etruction.
from The N,r ro,L no,Ia
do not like to SOW the seeds of
suspicion in the minds of parents about
then children, but there a(e thousands
of parents in our great cities who think,
vino know that their children never
lie" and yet their tongue Is like 4
Bonded bow. They think their chill
dren never drink but there is not a
fashionable saloon within mile OF their
homes that the boys are not familiar
with They think their children never
do nutritious things and yet they reek
with unvirtut. There are many young
men who, when they return to their
fathers houses, are supposed to have
been making visits to this or that per
son. 1t is a mere guiSe.
The practice of allowing children to
90 out at night to find their own com
panons and their own places of amuse-
ment may leave one in twenty I'M
sca,hed and without danger; but think
that nineteen out of twenty fall down
wounded or destroyed. And if there
is one thing that should be more I'M
perative than another, It is that your
children shall be at home at night; or
that, if the are abroad, you shall be
abroad with them. There may be
things that it is best that you should do
for your children, though you would
not do them tor yourselves but they
ought not to 90 anywhere at night, to
see sights, or to take pleasure, unless
you can 90 with them, until they are
grown to mans estate and their habits
are formed. And nothing is more GER
tain than that to grant the child liberty
to 90 outside of the parental root and
its restraints in the darkness of night is
bad, and only bad, and that continually.
DO not suppose that a child IS hurt
only when he IS broken down. | have
quite a taste in china cups and such
things. | like beautiful cup, and |
have noticed that when the handle gets
knocked off from a cup of mine that
cup is spoiled for me. When | look
at it afterwards | never see the beauty,
but always see the broken handle. If
| have a beautiful mirror ard it is
cracked, it may still answer all TIE pur-
poses that | want mirror for, to re-
veal my beauty, but nevertheless it is
spoiled for my eye. There is that
crack, and when | look into the glass
| never see myself half SO much as
see the crack Its perfection is gone.
In the matter of beauty, speck or a
blemish is more than al besides, and
takes away the pleasure OF all besides.
And 1t does not require that a child
should be broken dcwn to be made
useless by lis exposures to temptation.
| aver that there are many things which
no man can learn without being dam
aged by them all his life long. There
are many thoughts which ought never
to find a passage through man 5
brain. As an eel, If he were to wriggle
! across your carpet, would leave a slime
| which no brush could take off, so there
are many things which 10 person can
know and ever recover from the knowl-
edge OF.
There are the minions OF Satan that
90 around with hidden pictures and
books under the lapels of their coats,
showing them to the young, with gIaz-
ing, lustful, hideous, internal scenes
represented, which once to have seen
is to remember.
l can say these things, when some
| others could not. because | am known.
and want to be known, as a friend OF
| liberty and a friend of pleasure. | re-
buke the young who would turn monks
| do not believe in solitude. | do not
believe in melancholy. | believe in
gayety and joyouSness. And | believe
that the closer a man keeps to the laws
of nature the happier he will be, and
ought to be. Therefore, being on the
side of liberty, though MT on the side
of lCenSe-being on the side of whole
some, many pleasures, and freedom in
the Indulgence of them have author
ity to say, when you pervert nature in
this way it is utterly wicked and utterly
abominable
There is another application which,
although partial, is of great range and
of supreme Importance, addressing itself
to doctors, to guardians, and to parents,
chiefly. | refer to the practice of al
lowing children to 90 out at night into
the streets, if in cities; or, if in the
country, allowing children to find their
companions at night, and their pleas
ures at night, away from parental in
spection. If wanted to make the de
struction of a child sure, | would give
him unmatched liberty after dark. You
cannot do a thing that will be 50 nearly
a guarantee of a Child's damnation as
to let HIM have the liberty of the streets
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